State v. Second Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Hardesty, J.:

This is an original petition by the State for a writ of certiorari or mandamus. The State contends that the district court exceeded its jurisdiction or abused its discretion by awarding Anna Marie Jackson, the real party in interest, credit against her prison sentence for the time she served on house arrest as a condition of bail. NRS 176.055 allows the district court to award credit against the duration of a sentence for time “actually spent in confinement before conviction.’ ’ For the reasons discussed below, we hold that house arrest is not confinement…